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...Amsterdam, researchers found that 18% of its 157 HIV-positive male patients had also contracted hepatitis C. "Because the hepatitis C virus attacks the liver and HIV/AIDS patients receive highly toxic antiretroviral drugs that take a toll on the liver, it makes treatment much more complicated," says Anouk Urbanus, who researches infectious-disease clusters for GGD Amsterdam...
...taught about the Vietnam War. I would suspect that he merely animated his topic a bit. True, it's embarrassing for Ellis--and he ought not to have done it--but as a mark of scholastic duplicity, it gets a 1 on a scale of 1 to 10. DOUG URBANUS Ben Lomond, Calif...
...winter could force the government to raise home-heating prices beyond the means of many Estonians. Already the country's new poor line up outside soup kitchens in the capital of Tallinn for what may be their only meal of the day. "There is real poverty here," says Yevgeni Urbanus, a director at one of the kitchens, as he surveys the elderly people who have brought their own jars for the soup...
...DIED. Urbanus E. Baughman, 73, chief of the U.S. Secret Service from 1948 to 1961; of heart disease; in Toms River, N.J. As guardian of three U.S. Presidents, the chief once rated Harry Truman as his agency's greatest challenge. Explained Baughman: "He took all those walks, always out in the open, always exposed...
...eyes. Yet are such silent witnesses really as apathetic as social critics usually portray them? Perhaps not. In what the American Association for the Advancement of Science calls 1968's best sociopsychological research, Professors John M. Darley of Princeton and Bibb Latané of Ohio State portray homo urbanus in an entirely different light. Testing the reaction of college students to a feigned emergency, they found that the emotions of those who remained quiet hardly registered what could be called indifference. Often their hands trembled, their palms sweated. If anything, they were more nervous than those who reported...